The use of POWER8 processors at Leaseahost makes the Linux on Power technology more accessible as it relies on Linux OS - Ubuntu.

We can use this power in our everyday solutions and it is commonly used for databases. In fact this high capacity for parallelization lets you perform demanding, compute intensive operations on large volumes of data. Such fast and efficient operations are made possible thanks to an internal 12 x 300 GB storage system which can be used in RAID-10.

This is notably the case with MongoDB and MariaDB, which already provide specific releases offering the benefits of this architecture. Using them on POWER8 increases the density of bases and transactions on a single instance; this is especially true with MongoDB when it comes to the possibility of operating huge bases without sharding. As a matter of fact, these two database engines are promoting optimized releases taking full advantage of certain instruction sets specific to POWER8.